Posted on 10/20/2007 4:24:32 PM PDT by tips up
On Thursday, Congress attempted to override President Bush's veto of the SCHIP expansion. SCHIP? Isn't that something to do with health care for children? Absolutely. And here is Bay Area Democratic Rep. Pete Stark addressing the issue with his customary forensic incisiveness:
"The Republicans are worried that they can't pay for insuring an additional 10 million children. They sure don't care about finding $200 billion to fight the illegal war in Iraq. Where are you going to get that money? Are you going to tell us lies like you're telling us today? Is that how you're going to fund the war? You don't have money to fund the war on children, but you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people? If he can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the president's amusement."
I'm not sure I follow the argument here: President Bush wants to breed a generation of sickly uninsured children in order to send them to Iraq to stagger round the Sunni Triangle, weak and spindly and emaciated and rickets-stricken, to get their heads blown off? Is that the gist of it? No matter, Congressman Stark hit all the buzz words "children," "illegal war," "$200 billion," "lies," etc. and these days they're pretty much like modular furniture: You can say 'em in any order, and you'll still get a cheer from the crowd.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...
Well said!
"A couple of weeks ago, the Democrats put up a 12-year-old SCHIP beneficiary from Baltimore, Graeme Frost, to deliver their official response to the President's Saturday-morning radio address. And immediately afterwards Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin and I jumped the sick kid in a dark alley and beat him to a pulp. Or so you'd have thought from the press coverage ..."
Not only does his rapier wit have great reach, it is spot on target.
"I'm in favor of tax credits for child health care, and Health Savings Accounts for adults, and any other reform that emphasizes the citizen's responsibility to himself and his dependants. But middle-class entitlement creep would be wrong even if was affordable, even if Bill Gates wrote a check to cover it every month: it turns free-born citizens into enervated wards of the Nanny State."
It needs to be emphasized that Medical Savings Accounts have to carry over from one year to the next or they won't be utilized. Current plans are "use it or lose it," which often equates to "lose it."
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
[The Frost's] have ... three vehicles a new Chevy Suburban, a Volvo SUV, and a Ford F-250 pickup.
The Volvo puts them in the liberal camp I guess.
Actually not true for all. My father had a Volvo and he was to the right of Atilla the Hun.
And charging the survivors to support their murderers is NOT part of the war?
It’s all one war, FRiend.
bttt
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